Peter Walker wrote a great article for Mix Mag a while back about the various kinds of club DJs, their calibre and how much they are likely to make.
We've brought this up to date and added our own thoughts and ideas and a lot of other expertise too. Hopefully you will find this interesting.
The article describes four stages from being a Newbie or local club resident DJ, earning perhaps £150 a night, to a headlining stage superstar who pulls down around £50 million a year. To read this, article, CLICK HERE to go to our DJ Pro page.
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Club DJing is one of the hottest styles in radio right now, with many high earning leaders of the dance floor becoming radio DJs. Club DJs in radio are among the highest earners in the industry. The adulation they receive from their audience is second to none.
Disc jockeys come in a very wide variety of types : some club DJs who say nothing, don't interact in any way with and simply ignore their audience. Others are very creative, producing a mix of sounds that cajole a dance floor crowd onto a higher state of euphoria.
Some DJs are real showmen, who dress to impress and stand out from their audience and who use vocals to encourage dancers onto the floor. Their image can come across really well on the radio if using the right equipment. The biggest problem was for many years most radio executives did not understand the phenomena. Radio audiences for club DJ formats are hundreds of times bigger than the audience DJs can reach on the dance floors, even in the biggest clubs.
DJ Festivals
Festivals and weekend events now often feature simply DJs; TomorrowLand in Belgium has been running for ten years and sells 200,000 tickets. It's now also a major event in many other countries, proving the ever-growing popularity of club DJs.
In radio, there are many programme hosts who are not DJs but are simply 'presenters'. They simply back announce and introduce music. It's not very entertaining and such presentation styles are usually devoid of any enthusiasm. Little wonder that the audience don't get enthusiastic!
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History of the name 'DJ'
The term "Disc Jockey" was coined in the golden days of American Top 40 radio. In order to cram in the maximum number of tracks per hour. The best DJs would not have any dead air (silence) fading up the instrumental start of a track (called 'the ramp') over the end / fadeout of the previous one and adding their dialogue over any instrumental bits left, right up to the start of the vocal, but without actually 'stepping on' the vocal - a technique called "hitting the post".
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Traditionally, radio DJs would hone their skills on the long overnight shifts, but today so many radio stations have cut out these 'nursery' shifts and simply use an automatic playout system to provide non stop music; one of the reasons why radio standards and the listeners perception of radio have steadilly gone downhill in recent years.
The basic skills can be taught and there are several excellent DJs schools around the world teaching club and radio techniques. Many of those now offer their lessons by video with immediate downloads possible for some.
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Success as a DJ is something that eludes many, but with careful planning and having proper goals is the key to your success as a DJ. Don't join that band of DJs who practice the craft just for the love of music; you have to work for REAL MONEY. Get Motivated!
If you've got the techniques in hand, if you KNOW you can mix scratch and host a great DJ night, what you need now are strategies for your marketing. Knowing HOW to get the best gigs and make more than you need to live.
A good presenter engages with their audience and develops a relationship with them.
Whether they give the impression that they are getting very intimate with listeners (and radio is often said to be at its best when the DJ can develops it as a 'one-to-one' medium) or it is more showmanlike, with the DJ addressing the crowd, the very best communicators leave the listener with the impression that they are involved in the programme.
Developing that relationship is crucial for success, but if the listener feels shut out and alien to what's going on, they will not want to return.
Club DJing is one of the hottest styles in radio right now, with many high earning leaders of the dance floor becoming radio communicators. Club DJs in radio are among the highest earners in the industry. The adulation they receive from their audience is second to none.
Disc jockeys come in a very wide variety of types : some club DJs who say nothing, don't interact in any way with and simply ignore their audience. Others are very creative, producing a mix of sounds that cajole a dance floor crowd onto a higher state of euphoria.
There are DJs who are real showmen, who dress to impress, to really stand out from their audience and who use their vocal attributes to encourage dancers onto the floor. Their image can come across really well on the radio if using the right equipment. The biggest problem was for many years most radio executives did not understand the phenomena. Radio audiences for club DJ formats are hundreds of times bigger than the audience DJs can reach on the dance floors, even in the biggest clubs.
DJ Festivals
Festivals and weekend events now often feature simply DJs; TomorrowLand in Belgium has been running for ten years and had to be extended to two weekends, such as was the demand for the 200,000 tickets. Its now a major event in Brazil and a huge one in Atlanta Georgia, indicating the popularity of performance club DJs.
In radio, there are many programme hosts who are not DJs but are simply 'presenters'. They simply back announce and introduce music. It's not very entertaining and such presentation styles are usually devoid of any enthusiasm. Little wonder that the listeners don't get enthusiastic!
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The DJ Pro Fast & Easy course has taught hundreds of DJs to get up to speed quickly, learn techniques and earn fabulous salaries in radio and club DJing.
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There has never been a better time to learn to be a disc jockey. The demand from clubs is incredible, everyone wants a skilled professional DJ. Could that be YOU?
Most of the DJ courses now have a huge library of HD videos can be viewed on any device and at any time! UDJ will teach YOU the secrets to not only DJing and making music, but how to get gigs (to get paid to do what you love!) You will also learn how to promote yourself so YOU succeed using our proven DJ formula! Learn how to DJ with the help of some of the best pro's on the planet.
If you dream of that incredible feeling of DJing in front of thousands of people who are willing you on.. and furthermore getting paid to do exactly what you love then you are in the right place! DJing and music production opens many doors and we are going to show you everything you need to know. So, what are you waiting for?
Stylewise is a successful DJ in southern California and he offers a short video course on How To become a successful DJ. All you need to know.
DJ Stylewise has gigged at hundreds of venues and taught over a thousand others; he hosted the 'How to DJ' segment on a weekly TV show.
DJ Stylewise recommends the RANE Live SL3 and the SL4 DJ controllers which he says every DJ needs for live gigs, to sound professional and to become successful.
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His 'High Paid DJ program" quickly became one of the most successful DJ tuition courses taking many from back street obscurity to top-earning superstar status.
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With the Pro DJ, Fast & Easy course you get six hours of tuition delivered over 22 videos, covering all you need to know to become a top earning DJ.
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RANE 12 & RANE 72
The Rane 12 and the Raine 72 were officially launched at the DJ Expo 2017 held in Atlantic City. They look pretty similar to the Numark CDX machines. The Rane 12 is priced at $799 while the Seventy Two is priced at $1899.
The RANE crew manning the stand however were not letting regular exhibition attendees touch the kit, which they had on auto-play and securely locked into a Perspex box during regular hours.
DJ EXPO
DJ Times first presented DJ Expo in 1990—and, ever since, the show has continued to define the industry. With a program that includes 25 educational seminars, an exhibit hall full of top gear, and three evenings of sponsored events, DJ Expo remains the industry’s longest-running and best-attended trade show.
As always, DJ Expo seminars offer solutions to the biggest issues in an ever-changing industry, be they mobile, club- or studio-related. The DJ Expo showfloor & demo rooms will debut & showcase the products that will impact every DJ business.
Nabt DJ Expo's have been held in the Atlantic City Convention Centre, a superb venue that enabled the hundreds of exhibitors from all corners of the DJ supply world to show off their latest products, and meet and discuss the industry with thousands of DJs from all over the world.
Sponsored DJ Expo evening events bring DJs together for unique networking opportunities and musical experiences featuring many of the planet's most trendsetting DJs & hit-making artists.
The Rane SEVENTY-TWO has been designed in collaboration with champion DJs and their crews from all over the world. This battle-ready flagship offers the high standards of performance and construction that people have come to expect from RANE, and it features a lot of brand new with technology, some of which is ground-breaking.
With the RANE SEVENTY-TWO controller, two DJs can battle it out with their laptops simultaneously through the two USB computer connections. The Seventy Two features a brand-new 4.3-inch color touchscreen. It not only shows Serato’s moving waveforms and their cue points, it also brings a much-needed interactive experience to FX work flows, with two internal FLEX FX engines and stacked Serato effects.
We shall be featuring a full review on the equipment shortly, meanwhile more information on all RANE equipment can be found at Gear4Music's special RANE page, (with UK prices and service) or on the Rane's USA web site.
The latest RANE 72 Controller and a pair of RANE decks.
Traktor is perhaps the best DJ tool ever, but it comes with a 349 page manual - it might take you six months to understand it.
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Now there is a fast and easy way to become a Traktor Pro DJ. Save weeks and months of 'trial and error' and you can become a Pro' in a very short time. This course will show you the fast way to master Traktor Pro and become a professional DJ. After learning what DanoEF teaches, you’ll be ready to rock any party and start playing paid gigs around the world.
This course will feed your confidence. Its exciting. It's divided into 3 parts. Dano talks you through setting up your gear to work best with Traktor. The final part covers Mixing in key, one of the best features of Traktor.
There are seven bonuses and that makes this course Fully Loaded. There is even a special closed membership section and as a TDJC member you get FREE access. And this is all for the cost of a fee from one single gig! Check this out now, click Dano's face or the Traktor logo above to take a closer look - of how YOU can become a Traktor Pro DJ.
History of the name 'DJ'
The term "Disc Jockey" was coined in the golden days of American Top 40 radio. In order to cram in the maximum number of tracks per hour. The best DJs would not have any dead air (silence) fading up the instrumental start of a track (called 'the ramp') over the end / fadeout of the previous one and adding their dialogue over any instrumental bits left, right up to the start of the vocal, but without actually 'stepping on' the vocal - a technique called "hitting the post".
It needs timing, practice, a third sense and most of all, the DJ needs to really KNOW their music well!
This book, Last Night a DJ Saved my Life (named after a 1982 hit for INDEEP) To celebrate 100 years of the art of Disc Jockeying, Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton have expanded and updated their classic book which tells a lot of the history of the disc jockey.
The role of a DJ seems to have been born on Christmas Eve, 1906 when Reginald Fessenden became the first person to play a record over the radio. A century later and the DJ is the central figure in popular music. From these humble 'talking jukebox' origins to today's DJ superstars earning rock star salaries with a fanbase to match, the history of the DJ is fascinating and unpredictable.
The story of these unlikely cultural icons takes the reader through the swinging sixties, through the sequinned revolution that was disco, via hip hop and house to mass-market global domination. The book is available by clicking on its cover, or from Amazon - HERE.
Do you know that your beatmatching and mixing is as nice and tight as it should be which leads to you becoming nervous when playing live, or any type of public event (club, rave, house party, etc)?
• Is learning how to beatmatch and mix taking too long?
• Is it too frustrating?
• Do your dreams of being a superstar DJ, with
huge popularity, big pay, and adulation
that come with it, feel too far to reach?
huge popularity, big pay, and adulation
that come with it, feel too far to reach?
• Have you ever felt like giving up learning
how to DJ? Or have already given up?
how to DJ? Or have already given up?
• Are you having difficulty matching the beats
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The steps to becoming a "proper" and of course professional-sounding DJ are: the Gear, the Music, the Techniques, Playing Out and Promoting Yourself
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Digital DJ Tips is the biggest online DJ school in the world, with over 19,500 students in 163 countries across its DJ training courses. Digital DJ Tips training is suitable for anyone from casual, beginner DJs to those wanting to start full-time DJ businesses or become career DJ/producers.
Digital DJ Tips started off as a website documenting the emerging digital DJing scene back in 2010, quickly growing to become the world-leading website in DJ news, reviews, interviews. Via its 21 DJ training courses, it has since grown to be the biggest DJ school in the world.
Its two annual surveys – the Global DJ Census and the Mobile DJ Blueprint Survey – are by far the biggest of their type, and provide valued and up-to-date insights into the DJ world to both the DJ industry and consumers.
Digital DJ Tips is also behind The DJ Test, a unique online tool that helps DJs work out where they most need to improve, and offers them personalised free training based on their results.
With a following of over 850,000 on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter, the Digital DJ Tips community is the biggest, friendliest and most vibrant group of like-minded DJs in the world.
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Much has changed since 2010 both in the company and the DJ scene, but one thing that hasn’t changed is the company’s mission statement: To help as many people as possible become great DJs and DJ-producers.
How to DJ Properly book
This book forms the perfect introduction for the novice who wants a pair of Technics turntables for Christmas. It contains enough spot-on advice and advanced instruction to be valuable to more experienced DJs.
This is a great book for all aspiring DJs. It's informative, easy to understand for all levels and provides lots of tips and ideas to make it in what is now a very competitive world. But one that can bring untold riches, fame and fortune if you get it right!
Written in an entertaining 'no-bullshit' style, the book is laced with a healthy dose of realism. It shatters some illusions about the dance industry and offers in return some powerfully inspiring visions as it explains the true rewards of the DJ's craft.
How to DJ Properly Includes everything you will ever need to know, from illustrated tutorials on mixing techniques and styles, digital mixing, tips on buying the right equipment and records, advice from superstar DJs aplenty, plus how to make your own tracks and how to throw the best party. Now all you need is to get out of your bedroom and do it! CLICK HERE for details.
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